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  2. renegadeleader1
    Is that supposed to be a female crimson guard? 🤔
  3. mikeszekely
    Same. Honestly, that's usually the same for me. I've had basically no interested in anything Cang Toys has done (I like Gundam, and I like Transformers, but it doesn't mean I want my Transformers to look like Gundam🙃), no interest in TFC's Abominus, the only Iron Factory stuff I ever bought was their Bruticus, and DST's Aerialbots did nothing for me. I dunno why, but their Constructicons grabbed me, though. Mostly same, WfC Trilogy, Legacy, SS86, and AotP are giving me a lot of what I originally wanted like 10 years ago but felt the mainline wasn't delivering at the time. That said, I don't mind more complex stuff if it's good, interesting, or clever, like a lot of what MMC does, or some of Unique Toys' Bayverse stuff. When I criticize FT's Aerialbots for being over-engineered, I don't simply mean they were fiddly. I mean they took five steps to do something that could have been done in two, and they somehow nerfed a waist swivel while doing it. You specifically mentioned how they managed to make Silverbolt less of a Concorde with a brick of robot underneath, for example, but they way I saw it, sure, that block of robot was thinner, but it was still there, despite all the extra engineering that went into smearing that robot brick out and jamming some of it into the fuselage. Worse, it broke up the line of windows where they added humps to fit everything, so the alt mode looked worse from the top, too. Nope, I meant DST. He's going to be part of their Constructicon set. You may or may not recall, when I reviewed their Hook, I showed that he had the standard upper torso mode, but also a leg mode. In a nod to the IDW comics, you can make Hook a leg in place of Scrapper (who was killed by Spike), and Prowl can form the upper torso. The head that came with Hook already has the crest for "Prowlestator."
  4. Big s
    I remember less and less of that movie every day I guess. I kinda remember the part where they were on top of the star destroyer, but I don’t remember that character and I forgot about the horses I guess it’s kinda like that second Transformers movie where most people don’t like it and some people did, but nobody seems to remember how they got in the desert
  5. Mommar
    The processing fee is $7. Those shops are marking it way up to screw you.
  6. Shawn
    Let's see how these things hold up with applying that pressure in 10 plus years The video showed great excitement about the folding parts behind the head in battroid mode. It looks like it might be hard to align with big monkey hands like mine.
  7. Chronocidal
    Yeah, that's just the natural impact of the insane hip joint Bandai developed. It gives a pretty good range of motion, but holy cow does the entire mechanism of the hips scare me from all the tiny parts. Edit; Also, as a preemptive safety measure, you may want to loosen the screws in the hip joints for ease of use. The YF-19s always came insanely tight, and I know of at least a couple instances where it led to the plastic parts breaking around the screws. I can only hope that the mechanism is similar enough to be able to loosen it the same way this time around.
  8. MKT
    I also keep hearing yes.. Yes.. YESSS! Feels like watching the wrong genre.
  9. M'Kyuun
    S'all good. 😁 FWIW, The FT figs, and the two Dream Star figs I own, are a bit too fiddly for my liking. I've never transformed either back to its plane mode, and while I do like how they look in their bot modes, I honestly wouldn't miss them if I sold them off. Twenty or so years ago, I championed increasingly complex transformations; however, as I get older and my threshold for patience stretches ever the more taught, there never being much to begin with, I find my enjoyment of the fiddlier transforming toys wanes. I think the CHUG+ toys strike an excellent balance for me, and while I still enjoy picking up the odd third-party fig here and there, mostly legends but sometimes MP or thereabouts, or the odd Macross fig (I've only this year begun collecting a few HMR Macross figs and I very much enjoy them), I find I grow weary at times with some of their transformations. Thus said, I can certainly empathize with your frustration with oft over-complex engineering. As much as I really like transforming toys in general, when it comes to Transformers, perhaps the tenacious lure of nostalgia has me in its grip more so than other properties, as I'm unabashedly a G1 fan, although I don't subscribe to the plain cartoon look as so many other fans do. I do applaud the artistic license employed by any number of artists and toy makers over the decades, as they keep the franchise fresh, and lines like Beast Wars, Prime, and Animated resonate with me. However, when it comes to stuff like what Cang Toys, Dream Star Toys, or Iron Factory are doing as opposed to the more faithful G1 takes by FT, XTB, Magic Square, New Age, etc, I'm generally moved by the latter over the former, even if I can appreciate what the former are doing. But, I do own two Dream Star Aerialbots and eight IF figs, so I'm not above dipping my toes into the pool of toys with liberties taken. Sometimes variety is nice for its own sake. Anyway, I hope you derive a goodly bit of joy from your DST Constructicons, as they definitely give the old designs a proper shake-up, and while I'm not compelled to have them myself, I can certainly appreciate the direction and outcome of their creativity. As to what I'm assuming is a reference to DX9's take on a MP scaled Prowl, while I was initially interested, I'm not wholly enamored by the toon-slavish elongated shin-dows or their lack of sublime mechanical details ensconced within, one of my favorite aspects of the original Fairlady Z TF design. Too, I'm not a fan of the toonish three-toes details nor the odd oddly zig-zag rear edges of the doors which lack the subtle upsweep on the rear upper tips. The rest of the design looks OK to me otherwise, but for my taste, I'm still over the moon for MP-17 Prowl, one of my top favorite TF toys of all time. It's a dated design at this point (2013- hard to believe!), but it delivers everything I ever wanted from a Prowl figure since I picked up my G1 copy when I was thirteen or so and it continues to enthrall. However, I get that many a fan likes the extreme toon look so, for those fans wanting that in a Prowl figure, this should be the toy they've been waiting for. I hope it turns out to be an excellent figure, as the milking will be epic, and that too is good all around. If it is indeed so, I may even succumb to FOMO and get a copy in spite of myself. I do love me a good Prowl figure. Cheers!
  10. Mommar
    Are the Arcade Variants Pulse Exclusives again?
  11. treatment
    hmmm. still seems to look bow-legged like their previous VF-19Advance and YF-19...
  12. Actar
    At least there are locks on the 19s. The way they did the 21's hips was atrocious.
  13. Shawn
    I sure with they would stop with the 'rotate the hip joint to lower/raise' the legs...I really really really hate this, ever since I first encountered it in the Mospeada Riobot Legioss toy It always feels like I'm going to break the damn thing with these crazy rotate the leg and pull to move the joint. stop it!
  14. Actar
    Finally shipped out! I can't wait to get my DX Chogokin VF-19 Kai in hand. Bandai will make the most asinine design and engineering choices one day and implement crazy innovations like finally integrating the neck cover of the VF-19 into the transformation the next. Really want to play with the shoulder mechanism in person, too.
  15. rsvictor1976
    You gotta love that AI english translation... "It's so cool. It's so cool. It's so cool. I'm so happy. I'm so happy..."
  16. ImChris5115
  17. Seto Kaiba
    She's a minor character in The Rise of Skywalker. Rey's group meet her and her tribe of ex-First Order stormtroopers on the ocean moon of Endor while they're looking for the throne room in the wreckage of the second Death Star. She later goes with them to Exegol to fight the Sith and brings the horses they ride on top of that one Star Destroyer. At the end of the movie, she goes off with Lando Calrissian to look for her original family... though TBH the vibe I got was that she was meant to be the daughter Lando mentions was abducted by the First Order as a toddler. Nah. Disney backed away from the idea of Rose being Finn's love interest after she got almost Jar-Jar levels of hate when The Last Jedi came out. It did seem like Jannah was going to end up Finn's new love interest for a hot minute there since they were paired up several times in The Rise of Skywalker, but nothing comes of it either.
  18. Big s
    I have no memory of this character. I only watched that last movie once and even though there’s a picture and a name, I don’t remember this person. Did Finn cheat on Rose to be with her or something?
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota remains cute but directionless in its fifth episode. It has exactly one joke, and that is a deadpan reaction followed by serial escalation. My Friend's Little Sister Has It In For Me has hit almost white noise levels of unremarkable.
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  21. Seto Kaiba
    They've delved into his history in secondary works, based on what I can find... and his past is exactly as unremarkable as the films made it out. Basically, he was "recruited" at age 3 and raised in the First Order's indoctrination centers to be a future Stormtrooper cadet. He did well in training though got up to various comic relief-type hijinks on various assignments and the rest of his squad didn't like him so he never got a nickname. Jakku at the start of The Force Awakens was his first time in combat outside of simulations. He means Jannah, the female ex-First Order stormtrooper that Finn partners with in The Rise of Skywalker. (Yes, I had to look up her name too.) Nobody in Star Wars gets to live happily ever after. Only misery in this galaxy.
  22. Thom
    Ha! This chickee.
  23. sh9000
    Hasbro's 6" Tron Legacy figures will probably not do well either.
  24. sh9000
    Preorders go up on 10/29. Target Exclusive. Arcade Sentinel Variants.
  25. Big s
    I don’t remember Rose having an afro, but maybe the first Star Wars romantic comedy where they try and just settle down. One character doesn’t know how to function well in a non military environment and the other is so derpy she barely knows how to handle a domestic life. And then awkward adventures keep popping up and an out of place revelation into Finn’s past to give a bit of seriousness so it’s not totally silly kinda story and gets his series some interest.
  26. sh9000
    Preorders go up on 11/4.
  27. sh9000
    Preorders go up on 10/28.
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